Hyosung Names New Marketing Director, New U.S-Based Executives
Textiles
New execs at Hyosung in U.S. offices.
Perry Ellis, With a Few California Labels, Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Manufacturing
George Feldenkreis, an immigrant from Cuba, founded Perry Ellis 50 years ago.
Neighborhood Kids Meet Santa and Receive Gifts at the Annual Holiday Party by CFF and TALA
Celebrating the Holiday
The top floor of the Cooper Design Space in Los Angeles was filled with 200 children who met Santa Claus, ate typical kids’ food and celebrated the holidays with gifts.
Year in Review: The Year in Trade Shows
Trade Shows
For San Juan Capistrano, Calif.–based trade-show producer Emerald Expositions, 2017 was an eventful year.
Year in Review: The Retail News of 2017
Retail
The retail realm has seen a dramatic change this year, with more than 6,000 outposts shutting their doors and shopping malls blowing up their footprints to redesign their centers in an effort to appeal to millennial shoppers.
Year in Review in Trade: The Year of Breaking UP and Getting Back Together Again
Import/Export
Some relationships last forever. Others need to be restarted.
Fashion Market Northern California Gets a New Executive Director
Trade Shows
The five-times-a-year Fashion Market Northern California trade show, held at the San Mateo County Event Center, has a new executive director.
CMC Unveils New Trade Show
Trade Shows
At the upcoming Los Angeles Fashion Market in March, the California Market Center is taking the wraps off a new trade show, which will be on the building’s top floor.
Fashion Students Getting Better Tools to Increase Their Tech Skills
Technology
New cloud-based technology is popping up everywhere, and the world of fashion and design is no different.
Apparel Brands and Blockchain: Three Things You Need to Know Right Now
Technology
Just when you thought you were finally starting to have a basic understanding of social media, RFID, Magic Mirrors, Big Data and a plethora of other retail technologies required for today’s connected consumers, along comes a new term—Blockchain.
Raised in Los Angeles Takes Root in Downtown
Raised in Los Angeles
Raised in Los Angeles hopes to build a lifestyle brand starting with a unique logo and an array of T-shirts, hoodies, caps and sweatpants with a different vibe.
Hudson Jeans Going to Canada
Manufacturing
Differential Brands—the Los Angeles company whose labels include Robert Graham, Hudson Jeans and SWIMS—has entered into a partnership with Throat Threads Apparel to relaunch Hudson Jeans in Canada.
Shopping Center Developer Caruso Names a New CFO
Retail
Peter Wilhelm, the recently named chief financial officer of Caruso, has seen his career go from the realm of sports to the world of shopping centers.
MadaLuxe Vault Says It Offers New Kind Of Luxe
Off-Price Luxury
There are two retail sectors outperforming every other category in retail: luxury and off-price.
Turkey’s Calik Denim Shows New Angle on Jeans
Events
Calik Denim has supplied fabric to famous blue-jeans labels such as Joe’s Jeans, Frame, Guess, Tommy Hilfiger and McGuire Denim, but on Dec. 6 the Turkish-based label made its own statement with a gallery show called “Denim Loves Art,” which opened for one night in downtown Los Angeles.
Charlotte Russe Heads for Choppy Waters After Restructuring Debt
Retail
Charlotte Russe, the San Francisco–based teen retailer that got a lifeline by restructuring its debt without filing bankruptcy, is now headed for a tough time as it tries to convince shopping-mall owners to give it a break on store rents.
Jen Awad’s Rock ‘N’ Roll
Jen Awad showed her eponymous, rock ‘n’ roll style fashion line at past Los Angeles Fashion Weeks and various trade shows. But what we haven’t seen is Jen picking up the microphone or playing a badass guitar riff….until Dec.19.
Holiday at Handcrafted LA
Handcrafted LA produced the Holiday edition of its Meet the Makers party on Dec. 15. If you didn't make it, check this out.
Lola Rose Thompson + Gorman Takes A Bow
Aussie fashion brand Gorman opened its first U.S. shop in West Hollywood in July. And just before the year ended, Gorman unveiled a collaboration collection with Los Angeles-based artists Lola Rose Thompson.
The Latest for Bohemian Society’s Victor Wilde: An Art Show
A fashion designer’s toolbox typically includes scissors and sewing machines, but if you are Victor Wilde of the Bohemian Society; shotguns and blowtorches are also in use.
